Literary notes about corridor (AI summary)
In literature, the term “corridor” often functions as a transitional space that links different rooms, moods, and narrative moments. It can evoke a sense of both intimacy and isolation—serving as a venue for casual encounters and secret communications ([1], [2], [3]) while also acting as the setting for suspenseful or mysterious events, its dim lighting and echoing sounds heightening tension ([4], [5], [6]). At times, corridors mark the boundary between the familiar and the unknown, leading characters into new or transformative realms ([7], [8], [9]). This versatile usage not only connects physical spaces but also reflects the characters’ inner journeys, as they navigate through environments that are symbolic of transition and revelation ([10], [11]).
- Now when we chanced to meet in the corridor downstairs or in the yard, I bowed, she smiled graciously.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - I begged as they took me out into the corridor.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow - There was a secret communication between the cardinal’s apartments and those of the queen; and through this corridor
— from Twenty years after by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet - The corridor looked very long and dark, but she was too excited to mind that.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett - "It beckoned, gliding noiselessly before him down a corridor as dark and cold as any tomb.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - In the dusk it creeps along the corridor and follows you, so that you dare not turn.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. Wells - You can imagine my surprise when, as I looked down this corridor, I saw a glimmer of light coming from the open door of the library.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle - She opened the door of the room and went into the corridor, and then she began her wanderings.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett - It consisted of a long corridor from which roughly made doors led out to the separate departments of the attic.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka - Did you tell him that it was the last door at the end of the corridor, on the right?
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo - A track of blood appeared along the corridor, leading to it; and on the spot, where the Count and Montoni had fought, the whole floor was stained.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe
